Responsibilities
- Develop efficient, testable, and reusable Rust modules
- Solve performance and architectural challenges
- Deliver cloud-first solutions
- Support and enhance the PHP API when required
Experience
- 8+ years of PHP development.
- Strong knowledge of PHP frameworks (Laravel, MVC patterns; Drupal is a bonus)
- Proven experience in building scalable applications, including database schema design and system integrations
- Solid understanding of PostgreSQL (indexing, partitioning, JSON data handling)
- Experience integrating multiple data sources and databases
- Basic exposure to front-end technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
- Familiarity with user authentication and authorization across multiple systems/environments
- Knowledge of security compliance standards (PSR-12, OWASP) and PHP web server security
Competencies
- Foundational Rust knowledge (or willingness to learn) with an interest in systems programming
- Experience with functional programming concepts (map, filter, reduce)
- Understanding of memory management (stack vs heap, manual memory management)
- Worked with statically typed languages (e.g., C#, TypeScript, Java)
- Familiarity with algebraic data types and pattern matching (e.g., PHP 8.1+, C#)
- Experience with concurrent or parallel programming
- Strong interest in performance optimization
- Ability to identify and apply workarounds for PHP platform limitations
- Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and attention to detail
